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consuetude

NOUN
  1. a custom or usage that has acquired the force of law

How To Use consuetude In A Sentence

  • Then came nepenthe and scholium, aleatoric and consuetude. Pool of National Spelling Bee competitors whittled down to 48
  • They were pooped, but consuetude dictated that they remain upright for another 30 minutes.
  • With the effective of zone, the language, consuetude , folkway and circumstance with the folk music attached are quite different.
  • Already the new men in the house were about as numerous as the war veterans and one could almost see and feel that there was going to be a question - the question of just how to teach so many new men the ‘old consuetudes.’
  • Mont – Fitchet, “the stain hath become engrained by time and consuetude; let thy reformation be cautious, as it is just and wise.” Ivanhoe
  • Trembling the while, Ogger, who knew by experience what were the power and might of Charles, and who had learned the lesson by long consuetude in better days, then said, 'When ye shall behold the crops shaking for fear in the fields, and the gloomy Po and the Ticino overflowing the walls of the city with their waves blackened with steel The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
  • The society macroclimate of seeking the liberation was cleaning up the outmoded consuetudes on the style of the costume, which tended to be succinct, and people strived to be simple and elegant on the hue and paid attention to embody female's natural beauty.
  • This, together with new desires for fine art critical of anaemic and attenuated art consuetudes, as well as the arrival of several generations of artists who grew up, cherish and wish to merge vernacular and fine art approaches, has led to a new variety of art, which Hill now seeks to name.
  • The consent, say they, of realmes and lawes pronounced and admitted in this behalfe, long consuetude and custorne, together with felicitie of some women in their empires haue established their authoritie. The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.
  • Pro quo Caesar hanc [Greek letter: digamma rotated 90 degress] figuram scribi voluit, quod quamvis illi recte visum est tamen consuetude antiqua superavit. The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it
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